Pick up
Pick up verb - To get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for.
Usage example: could you pick up some milk at the store?
Sell
Sell verb - To offer for sale to the public.
Both terms in one sentence
- Similar for the four types of teleportation spells; they can be used via enchanted items or scrolls, but in the long run it's cheaper and more convenient to just buy the spells and sell any such items you pick up.
Source: Antidote Effect - However, if you use Phase Door to teleport onto the tile, you bypass this, and can now pick up the shop's entire inventory for free, which you can then sell back to him.
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Roguelike - So you could start by amassing a huge pile of large rations, seeds gathered with Survival, etc., and pick up even more of them, then sell those until you had so much gold you could do the same thing, and then, well, you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Roguelike
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